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Fri Mar 11, 2016, 09:37 AM Mar 2016

Reagan High School To Remove Confederate-Linked Name (TX)

Changing names costs about $250,000 for each campus – or $2 million for all eight schools.
LAURA ISENSEE | POSTED ON MARCH 11, 2016, 6:39 AM

At its meeting Thursday, the Houston school board continued its march to remove school names tied to the Confederacy.

Previously, the HISD board had ordered seven schools to change their names, including Davis and Lee high schools.

Now there’s another school on the list: Reagan High School. The school’s namesake, John H. Reagan, served as postmaster general in the Confederacy ...

The HISD board voted four in favor and three against the name change. Two trustees were absent, including Anna Eastman, who represents Reagan High ...


http://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/2016/03/11/141064/next-houston-school-to-remove-confederate-linked-name-reagan-high/

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